National Technical Lead

The National Technical Lead will be the Technical Team Leader for the project team. He/she will be responsible for ensuring that the project is executed with high technical standards, including providing high level policy advice, in coordination with the international and national consultants/experts and will work in close cooperation with DWRM and FAO.
Specifically, he/she will be responsible for:
• Coordinating with relevant initiatives to realize synergies in the scale and sustainability of the project impacts;
• Track the project's progress and ensure timely delivery of inputs and outputs;
• Prepare terms of references for subcontracts in support of all activities of concern to the project implementation including ecological health assessments, hydrological modelling, water accounting, decision support systems, ecosystem restoration, river basin management, nature-based solutions for protection and conservation, community resilience and resilient livelihoods;
• Facilitate the convening of regular meetings and briefing sessions with DWRM and with government counterparts and other parties concerned;
• Support and facilitate coordination between key project stakeholders, particularly the environment and agriculture sector leads of MAE, and between central, provincial and district-level Governments.
• Provide technical oversight and monitoring of subcontracted projects and activities, ensuring high quality technical delivery and integration of national and international good practice;
• Lead in the oversight of implementation, M&E and scaling up of innovative pilots on nature-based solutions and ecosystem restoration, promoting community and private sector involvement and investments;
• Identify capacity building and knowledge management needs in areas such as IWRM, integrated river basin management, protection and conservation, and support the organization of capacity building and knowledge dissemination events for Government and non-Government partners;
• Document lessons learnt and best practices related to ecosystem restoration and river basin management; and
• Support the DWRM, FAO and project team in providing input supports for technical reports, presentations, tables, maps and project knowledge products.